Download or read book The Public Execution of Miss Scarlet written by James Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are in every project. They are the Five Deadly Sins of project management. In this fictional tale, Kelly Roberts and his team seek the truth. In investigating why Project Skyview is failing, they find that the truth is a precious and minute commodity. What can Kelly do to turn around Project Skyview and make it a successful project? The board of directors of Crutec hires Kelly Roberts and his sidekicks, Amanda Nickerson and Leroy Jefferson, to do just that. They come in with fresh eyes and new ideas, but they are stopped and diverted at every turn by the internal politics and underlying prejudices. From sleepy Cape Cod to the heart of Silicon Valley, the mystery unfolds. This book explores the ways Kelly and his team identify the Five Deadly Sins, what action Crutec could take to overcome them, and how to raise Crutec’s chances of project success.

Download or read book The Good Sponsor written by James Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Executive Sponsor Research Report written by James Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The executive sponsor should be the most important person involved with a project and is ultimately responsible for its success or failure. Therefore, the executive sponsor should have the skills to lead and guide a project to resolution. This report ... attempt to outline the 50 best practices and tools needed to be a good executive sponsor."-- Page 3.

Download or read book My Life is Failure written by James Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 Things You Should Know to Be a Successful Project Leader. My Life in Failure is a summation of over two decades of work on project failure. The Standish Group has been collecting case information on real-life IT environments and software development projects since 1985. Standish's cumulative research encompasses 20 years of data on why projects succeed or fail, representing more that 50,000 completed IT projects. Note: Updated 17 charts with 2015/2016 data.

Download or read book Digital Enterprises written by Henderik A. Proper and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores different aspects of and provides concrete suggestions to meet the three main challenges for becoming a “Digital Enterprise”: the transition to the digital age, the emergence of service ecosystems, and the growing role of data as a key underlying resource. As a result of these intertwined and mutually amplifying trends, today’s enterprises are confronted with several challenges that profoundly impact their design, from the definitions of products and services offered to their clients via the business processes that deliver these products and services to the underlying IT infrastructure. The contributions which are written by leading enterprise architecture researchers and managers of large corporations cover four key aspects which form each one part of the book: Part I presents experiences how different enterprises currently already need to embrace and exploit new challenges like blockchain, customer-centric services, or value co-creation networks. Part II looks at the need for a new design logic, i.e. the need for new ways of thinking regarding the design of enterprises. Part III is concerned with the coordination needed among different stakeholders of the ensuing continuous transformations. Part IV eventually reflects on the ongoing consequences for enterprise modeling as used to capture both the current affairs of an enterprise, as well as design/study its possible future affairs. The target audience of this book are both master and PhD level students who want to gain insights into key aspects of the challenges confronting digital enterprises, as well as enterprise architects and information managers working in enterprises that are on their way to become digital.

Download or read book Dead Presidents Guide to Project Management written by James Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dead Presidents? Guide to Project Management considers lessons learned that these great men have bestowed upon us. The job of president of the United States requires many of the same leadership skills, knowledge, and characteristics you need to be a good executive sponsor, project manager, teammate, collaborator, and person. This guide provides you with a deeper understanding on how these leaders used many of these skills to improve the United States of America. This deeper understanding will allow you to relate adroitly and effectively to your own situation and environment. This guide will also help you to become a more interesting person.

Download or read book CHAOS Report Decision Latency Theory It Is All About the Interval written by James Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CHAOS Report: Decision Latency Theory: It¿s All About the Interval. This CHAOS Report 2018 presents the root cause of software project performance. The report also includes classic CHAOS data in different forms with many charts. Most of the charts come from the CHAOS database of over 50,000 in-depth project profiles from the fiscal years 2013 to 2017. A highlight of this report is our analysis and thought leadership what makes a project succeed and winning hand and what makes a losing hand.

Download or read book Saving Jimmy written by James Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saving Jimmy is a fun story about a lost boy. The Adventures of Jackie series provides easy to understand basic project management lessons aimed at children. Jackie the Squirrel is a project manager. Jackie enjoys solving problems through managing projects. In saving Jimmy, Jackie first observes Jimmy wandering around woods looking lost. Jackie decides to make a plan to save Jimmy from freezing. Jackie then acquires resources and executes the plan. This graphic book demonstrates project management lessons through colorful and delightful common forest birds and animals. Each page is a unique hand painted work of art by Kayla Johnson.

Download or read book The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-09 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement.

Download or read book The Spectacle of Death written by Kristin Boudreau and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1787, Benjamin Rush cautioned that public punishments were dangerous to the social and legal authority of the new nation. For Rush, irrepressible human sentiments all but guaranteed that public punishments would turn spectators against the institutions responsible for the punishments. Although public executions of criminals ended early in the 19th century, debate over the morality of capital punishment has continued to this day.In this unique and fascinating glimpse into public reactions to prominent executions, from colonial times to the 1990s, Kristin Boudreau focuses on the central role of populist, often ephemeral literary forms in shaping attitudes toward capital punishment. Surveying popular poems, ballads, plays, and novels, she shows that, at key times of social unrest in American history, many Americans have felt excluded by the political and legal processes, and have turned instead to inexpensive literary forms of expression in an attempt to change the course of history.Among the significant capital cases that the author discusses are: the Haymarket anarchist trial of 1886; the lynching of Leo Frank in 1914; the murder of Emmett Till in 1955 and its effects on the Civil Rights movement; Norman Mailer''s treatment of the Gary Gilmore case in the 1979 novel, The Executioner''s Song; and the 1998 execution of Karla Faye Tucker, a convicted murderer who became a born-again Christian on death row.In the concluding chapter, Boudreau examines contemporary writers, musicians, actors, and other artists who are using their artistic media to influence official policies of states that permit capital punishment.By examining these neglected texts, Boudreau brings to light a compelling story about ordinary Americans fighting an entrenched legal system at times of great national crisis.

Download or read book The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity written by Ferenc Fehér and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from widely different perspectives, these essays characterize the Great Revolution as the dawn of the modern age, the grand narrative of modernity. The scope of issues under scrutiny is extremely broad, ranging from the analyses of the hotly debated class character of 1789 and the problem of the nation state to the “Cult of the Supreme Being,” the emancipation of the Jews, and the cultural heritage of the Revolution. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Download or read book Scarlet Tunic written by Robert Gordon Teather and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 1997 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporal Robert Teather invites readers inside the police cars and the hearts of the RCMP in these stories of his fellow police officers and the challenges they face. Teather was a 28-year veteran of the RCMP who won the Commissioner's Commendation, the Force's highest honour, and the Canadian Cross of Valour, Canada's highest award, for bravery.

Download or read book The Hanging Tree written by V. A. C. Gatrell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of mentalities, emotions, and attitudes rather than of policies and ideas, it analyses responses to the scaffold at all social levels: among the crowds which gathered to watch executions; among 'polite' commentators from Boswell and Byron on to Fry, Thackeray, and Dickens; and among the judges, home secretary, and monarch who decided who should hang and who should be reprieved. Drawing on letters, diaries, ballads, broadsides, and images, as well as on poignant appeals for mercy which historians until now have barely explored, the book surveys changing attitudes to death and suffering, 'sensibility' and 'sympathy', and demonstrates that the long retreat from public hanging owed less to the growth of a humane sensibility than to the development of new methods of punishment and law enforcement, and to polite classes' deepening squeamishness and fear of the scaffold crowd.

Download or read book Orwell written by Jeffrey Meyers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable volume collects, for the first time, essays representing more than four decades of scholarship by one of the world's leading authorities on George Orwell. In clear, energetic prose that exemplifies his indefatigable attention to Orwell's life work, Jeffrey Meyers analyzes the works and reception of one of the most widely read and admired twentieth-century authors. Orwell: Life and Art covers the novelist's painful childhood and presents accounts of his autobiographical writings from the beginning of his career through the Spanish Civil War. Meyers continues with analyses of Orwell's major works, including Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as well as his style, distinctive satiric humor, and approach to the art of writing. Meyers ends with a scrupulous examination of six biographies of Orwell, including his own, that embodies a consummate grasp and mastery of both the art of biography and Orwell's life and legacy. Writing with an authority born of decades of focused scholarship, visits to Orwell's homes and workplaces, and interviews with his survivors, Meyers sculpts a dynamic view of Orwell's enduring influence on literature, art, culture, and politics.

Download or read book Miss Scarlet s School of Patternless Sewing written by Kathy Cano-Murillo and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the second book in her Crafty Chica series, Kathy Cano-Murillo returns to the list with the story of a woman who finds her life's true path by teaching others to stray outside the lines. Scarlet Santana is never happier than when creating fabulous fashions for women of all shapes and sizes. Now, after years of hard work, she finally has the chance to live her dream and study under the hottest designer in New York. To raise money for her move, Scarlet opens an after-hours sewing school in a local record shop, teaching a type-A working mom whose rigid parenting style is causing her family to unravel and an enigmatic seamstress with a mysterious past. But as stitches give way to secrets and classmates become friends, the women realize an important truth: There is no single pattern for a good life. Happiness is always a custom fit.

Download or read book Rhett Butler s People written by Donald McCaig and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life and times of dashing hero Rhett Butler and the people who shaped his world--his unyielding father Langston, best friend and onetime slave Tunis Bonneau, former love Belle Watling, and the passionate Scarlett O'Hara.

Download or read book Hotel de Dream written by Emma Tennant and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is barely surprising that the lodgers at the Westringham have busy dream lives: it is a place from which anyone would want to escape. But the kaleidoscope begins to turn: the dreams begin to defy their dreamers. They start to merge...